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11/22/63 by Stephen King
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 79 ratingsOn November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force...Categorized as:
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![The Great St Mary's Day Out by Jodi Taylor]()
The Great St Mary's Day Out by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEveryone deserves to get away for a bit. Even the miscreants at St Mary's. Astonishingly, Dr Bairstow has declared a holiday. Even more astonishingly - he's paying for it. Needless to say, there are strings attached. They have to record the 1601 performance of Hamlet, with Shakespeare himself in the role of the Ghost. It doesn't go well, of course...Categorized as:
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![The Long and the Short of it by Jodi Taylor]()
The Long and the Short of it by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFollow the disaster magnets of St Mary's as they hurtle around history! The ninth book in The Chronicles of St Mary's Series collects the bestselling short stories in print for the first time. When a Child is Born - A jump back to 1066 to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror goes slightly astray... -
![The System of the World by Neal Stephenson]()
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe System of the World, the third and concluding volume of Neal Stephenson's shelf-bending Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver and The Confusion), brings the epic historical saga to its thrilling - and truly awe-inspiring - conclusion...Categorized as:
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![The Steam-Pump Jump by Jodi Taylor]()
The Steam-Pump Jump by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNot one to let being banged up in Sick Bay stop her, Max has had a brilliant idea. But she needs Markham to execute it on her behalf. The subject of this cunning plan is Peterson, struggling with another bereavement and not doing very well. What’s needed to get him through it is sympathy, sensitivity, tact and understanding.Step forward Mr Markham, for whom sympathy, sensitivity, etc...Categorized as:
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![A Perfect Storm by Jodi Taylor]()
A Perfect Storm by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe brand new short story in the bestselling series, The Chronicles of St Mary’s...Categorized as:
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![Anathem by Neal Stephenson]()
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsFraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls... -
![The Gangster by C.S. Poe]()
The Gangster by C.S. Poe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1881—Special Agent Gillian Hamilton, magic caster for the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has recovered from injuries obtained while in Shallow Grave, Arizona. Now back in New York City, Gillian makes an arrest on New Year’s Eve that leads to information on a gangster, known only as Tick Tock, who’s perfected utilizing elemental magic ammunition... -
![The Carnelian Crow by Colleen Gleason]()
The Carnelian Crow by Colleen Gleason
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEver since the debacle of the Chess Queen Enigma, Mina Holmes and Evaline Stoker have laid low, trying to settle back into their quiet lives as young ladies of London. But the Holmesian deductive abilities won't remain dormant for long, and when Mina receives a strange package from a winged, midnight visitor, she is catapulted into a new, dangerous adventure: the search for The Carnelian Crow... -
![Moseh's Staff by A.W. Exley]()
Moseh's Staff by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll things must come to an end... London is in the frozen grip of an unnatural winter and Queen Victoria wants answers. Cara and Nate know who - the Curator. The queen's artifact hunters just don't know what is responsible. Cara is on the trail of an ancient and powerful artifact capable of freezing a city and stirring demons. First she must confront her past and her father's history... -
![The Jackal’s House by Anna Butler]()
The Jackal’s House by Anna Butler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSequel to The Gilded ScarabSomething is stalking the Aegyptian night and endangering the archaeologists excavating the mysterious temple ruins in Abydos. But is it a vengeful ancient spirit or a very modern conspiracy…...Categorized as:
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![The Very First Damned Thing by Jodi Taylor]()
The Very First Damned Thing by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEver wondered how it all began?It’s two years since the final victory at the Battersea Barricades. The fighting might be finished, but for Dr Bairstow, just now setting up St Mary's, the struggle is only beginning... -
![King of the Vagabonds by Neal Stephenson]()
King of the Vagabonds by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance...Categorized as:
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![The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow]()
The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
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![Sojourn by Jana Oliver]()
Sojourn by Jana Oliver
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLondon, September 1888. An aged Queen Victoria rules. The threat of anarchy hovers in the air. A new kind of evil lurks in the back alleys of Whitechapel. Enter Jacynda Lassiter, a Time Rover on a mission find an overdue tourist' and return him to 2057 before he changes history. Victorian London is a dangerous place for the unwary... -
![High Cotton by Joe R. Lansdale]()
High Cotton by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis collection of Joe R. Lansdale stories represents the best of the “Lansdale” genre—a strange mixture of dark crime, even darker humor, and adventure tales. The stories are varied in setting and theme, but they are all pure Lansdale—eerie, amusing, and occasionally horrific. In “The Pit,” modern gladiators square off against one another using Roman methods... -
![The Zeppelin Deception by Colleen Gleason]()
The Zeppelin Deception by Colleen Gleason
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMina Holmes and Evaline Stoker return in their final and most exciting adventure together. Will the Ankh be brought to justice? What will happen now that we know Pix’s real identity? And what about Dylan? . . -
![A Lady of Spirit by Shelley Adina]()
A Lady of Spirit by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYou can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family … or can you? Under normal circumstances, Maggie and Lizzie would be delighted to meet their long-lost relatives and be reunited with those who had believed them dead, but when are the Mopsies’ circumstances ever to be considered normal? With her half-brother Claude Seacombe, Lizzie travels to Cornwall to meet her mother’s parents... -
![Sherlock Holmes in Orbit by Mike Resnick, Dean Wesley Smith]()
Sherlock Holmes in Orbit by Mike Resnick, Dean Wesley Smith
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAuthorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, this brand-new collection of 26 Sherlock Holmes stories takes place in Holmes' own era, in our present time, and in the future. All the tales contain some science fiction or fantasy element, and all remain true to the spirit and personality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous and enduring creation... -
![Nero's Fiddle by A.W. Exley]()
Nero's Fiddle by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne death by spontaneous human combustion is a rare act of God. Two... is surely a freakish coincidence. Three... well, that's starting to look deliberate. Cara has a new role as Queen Victoria's artifact hunter, she's adapting to married life and living in a country manor that more closely resembles a mausoleum...Categorized as:
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![Hunted by Lindsay Buroker]()
Hunted by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSelf-taught tinkerer Kali McAlister is determined to build an airship and escape the frigid Yukon forever. Unfortunately, she’s the heir to the secrets of flash gold, an alchemical energy source that tends to make her a popular target for bandits, gangsters, and pirates...Categorized as:
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![The Chess Queen Enigma by Colleen Gleason]()
The Chess Queen Enigma by Colleen Gleason
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnd then she mouthed a word at me—an unmistakable word that told me everything I needed to know. “Checkmate.”Evaline Stoker & Mina Holmes have reluctantly agreed to act as social chaperones and undercover bodyguards for Princess Lurelia of Betrovia, who has arrived in London to deliver a letter that details the secret location of an ancient chess queen that’s been missing for centuries... -
![The Queen Is Dead by Kate Locke]()
The Queen Is Dead by Kate Locke
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNothing lasts forever---and immortality isn't all its cracked up to be.When her brother Val gets in over his head in an investigation of Half-Blood disappearances and goes missing himself, it's up to Xandra, newly crowned Goblin Queen, to get him back and bring the atrocities to light... -
![Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow]()
Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
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![Hatshepsut's Collar by A.W. Exley]()
Hatshepsut's Collar by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 23 ratings"Loving you is easy, it's living with you that's killing me."An ancient Egyptian artifact is driving Queen Victoria insane, and that's not top of Cara Devon's growing list of problems.Viscount Nathaniel Lyons is a man of numerous secrets, but there is one in particular that threatens his fledgling relationship with Cara... -
![Skykeep by Joseph R. Lallo]()
Skykeep by Joseph R. Lallo
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt has taken some adjustment, but Nita Graus has made quite a home for herself among the crew of the Wind Breaker. Under her skillful care it has become one of the only airships to stay aloft without the continuous repair and oversight of the vile and manipulative fug folk...Categorized as:
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![The Janus Affair by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris]()
The Janus Affair by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCertainly no strangers to peculiar occurrences, agents Wellington Books and Eliza Braun are nonetheless stunned to observe a fellow passenger aboard Britain's latest hypersteam train suddenly vanish in a dazzling bolt of lightning. They soon discover this is not the only such disappearance - every case inexplicably unexamined by the Crown... -
![Starcross by Philip Reeve]()
Starcross by Philip Reeve
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsArt, Myrtle, and their mother accept the kind invitation of a holiday to an up-and-coming asteroid resort... -
![The Diamond Conspiracy by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris]()
The Diamond Conspiracy by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor years, the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences has enjoyed the favor of Her Majesty the Queen. But even the oldest loyalties can turn in a moment…Having narrowly escaped the electrifying machinations of Thomas Edison, Books and Braun are looking forward to a relaxing and possibly romantic voyage home. But when Braun’s emergency signal goes off, all thoughts of recreation vanish... -
![A Study in Ashes by Emma Jane Holloway]()
A Study in Ashes by Emma Jane Holloway
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs part of her devil’s bargain with the industrial steam barons, Evelina Cooper is finally enrolled in the Ladies’ College of London. However, she’s attending as the Gold King’s pet magician, in handcuffs and forbidden contact with even her closest relation, the detective Sherlock Holmes.Not even Niccolo, the dashing pirate captain, and his sentient airship can save her... -
![The Engineer by C.S. Poe]()
The Engineer by C.S. Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1881—Special Agent Gillian Hamilton is a magic caster with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam. He’s sent to Shallow Grave, Arizona, to arrest a madman engineer known as Tinkerer, who’s responsible for blowing up half of Baltimore. Gillian has handled some of the worst criminals in the Bureau’s history, so this assignment shouldn’t be a problem... -
![The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder]()
The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSPRING HEELED JACK IS JUMPING BACK!It's 9 p.m. on February 15, 1860, and Charles Babbage, the British Empire's most brilliant scientist, performs an experiment. Within moments, blood red snow falls from the sky and Spring Heeled Jack pops out of thin air in London's Leicester Square... -
![The Bride Wore Constant White by Shelley Adina]()
The Bride Wore Constant White by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook one of the Mysterious Devices series of clockwork cozies set in the Magnificent Devices world!A bride in search of safety. Young ladies in search of their father. A man in search of self-respect. But in the Wild West, you always find more than you’re looking for.. -
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Empire of Ruins by Arthur Slade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSecret agent Modo's next assignment? Find ancient Egyptian ruins hidden deep in the Australian jungle and the mysterious God Face, rumoured to be a powerful weapon—anyone who looks upon it will be driven mad... -
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![West by Lizzy Ford]()
West by Lizzy Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you could change history, would you?College graduate Josephine “Josie” Jackson answers ‘yes’ to the question on a survey while visiting an Old West tourist trap. The next morning, she wakes up in Indian Territory in the 1840s, where she’s given a mission to complete before she can return to her time: to reset history by finding and stopping the man responsible for a horrific massacre...Categorized as:
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![The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats by Mark Hodder]()
The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats by Mark Hodder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHaving returned from his expedition to the future, Burton reveals to the authorities what he witnessed there. In response, prime minister Disraeli initiates a programme whereby the empire's elite have their consciousnesses transferred into mechanical bodies, thereby ensuring eternal rule. As a brutal plutocracy emerges, Burton and Swinburne find themselves leading a revolution... -
![The Sleeping Partner by Madeleine E. Robins]()
The Sleeping Partner by Madeleine E. Robins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Sleeping Partner heralds the return of the serene and self-reliant Miss Sarah Tolerance, Fallen Woman and Agent of Inquiry. This time, Miss Tolerance is seeking not a missing trinket or the solution to a crime, but a living person - a young gentlewoman who has vanished from under her wealthy family's roof, apparently bent on a scandalous elopement with a mysterious man whom nobody knows... -
![Operation: Endgame by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris]()
Operation: Endgame by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoin Agents Books and Braun on their final adventure with the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences!There is no time to rest for Eliza D Braun and Wellington Thornhill Books. The man who has haunted and hounded them since the fall of the Maestro, Doctor Henry Jekyll, is now on a killing spree, using bizarre, theatrical murders as a way to taunt their inability to capture the... -
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Theater of Spies by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second novel in an alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president once more right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back... -
![The 9/11 Machine by Greg Enslen]()
The 9/11 Machine by Greg Enslen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereDr. Donald Ellis lost his family on 9/11. But while others grieved, or plotted revenge, Dr. Ellis threw himself into a long-dormant research project. He traded his lab at the University of New York for an ugly riverfront warehouse in Brooklyn...Categorized as:
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![Heart of Iron by Bec McMaster]()
Heart of Iron by Bec McMaster
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Victorian London, if you’re not a blue blood of the Echelon then you’re nothing at all. The Great Houses rule the city with an iron fist, imposing their strict ‘blood taxes’ on the nation, and the Queen is merely a puppet on a string…Lena Todd makes the perfect spy...Categorized as:
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![The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross]()
The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 1897 London, something not quite human is about to awaken... When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. What's left of their archenemy, The Machinist, hungers to be resurrected, and Emily must transplant his consciousness into one of his automatons—or forfeit her friends' lives... -
![The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man by Mark Hodder]()
The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man by Mark Hodder
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be. . . . Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended... -
![Mina Wentworth and the Invisible City by Meljean Brook]()
Mina Wentworth and the Invisible City by Meljean Brook
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEight months after The Iron Duke, can their marriage survive a new danger?After Mina is called in to investigate the murder of an aristocratic bounder, her husband Rhys—known to the world as the Iron Duke—must overcome his fear for his new bride before his need to protect her tears them apart... -
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![The Girl with the Windup Heart by Kady Cross]()
The Girl with the Windup Heart by Kady Cross
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1897 London, a final showdown is about to begin.London's underworld is no place for a young woman, even one who is strong, smart and part-automaton like Mila. But when master criminal Jack Dandy inadvertently breaks her heart, she takes off, determined to find an independent life, one entirely her own. Her search takes her to the spangled shadows of the West End's most dazzling circus...Categorized as:
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![Dawn's Early Light by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris]()
Dawn's Early Light by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEven helped by two American agents from the Office of the Supernatural and the Metaphysical, Braun and Books are challenged. Chief suspect in a rash of nautical and aerial disasters is Thomas Edison. Fantastic electric machines of Edison, eccentricities of consultant Nikola Tesla, and mysterious machinations of the Maestro, all bring danger... -
![The Immorality Engine by George Mann]()
The Immorality Engine by George Mann
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the surface, life is going well for Victorian special agent Sir Maurice Newbury, who has brilliantly solved several nigh-impossible cases for Queen Victoria with his indomitable assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, by his side. But these facts haven’t stopped Newbury from succumbing increasingly frequently to his dire flirtation with the lure of opium... -
![Mission: Improper by Bec McMaster]()
Mission: Improper by Bec McMaster
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree years ago, London society changed forever, with a revolution placing the widowed Queen firmly on the throne her blue blood husband tried to take from her... -
![A Lady of Resources by Shelley Adina]()
A Lady of Resources by Shelley Adina
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBook 5 in the Magnificent Devices series!You can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family … or can you?Now sixteen, the twins Lizzie and Maggie are educated young ladies who have not been called “the Mopsies” in years … except by their guardian, Lady Claire Trevelyan... -
![The Custodian of Marvels by Rod Duncan]()
The Custodian of Marvels by Rod Duncan
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYou’d have to be mad to steal from the feared International Patent Office. But that’s what Elizabeth Barnabus is about to try. A one-time enemy from the circus has persuaded her to attempt a heist that will be the ultimate conjuring trick.Hidden in the vaults of the Patent Court in London lie secrets that could shake the very pillars of the Gas-Lit Empire...
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